Longtime Central Missouri athletics leader Jerry Hughes died after battle with illness

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The College of Central Missouri introduced longtime athletics chief Jerry Hughes died over the weekend. Hughes died late Saturday after a battle with a quick sickness.

Hughes served because the athletic director for the Mules and Jennies since 1983.

Throughout Hughes’ time as athletics director, the college has received a number of NCAA championships in each males’s and ladies’s hoops, collaborating in 12 Division II Faculty World World Collection and successful two of them. The college’s soccer program has additionally received 5 MIAA convention titles since 1983.

Hughes was additionally capable of safe investments to renovate this system’s soccer, baseball stadiums, the event of the college’s South Recreation Complicated and the whole redesign and renovation of Keth Memorial Golf Course.

For Hughes’ success with this system, he was inducted into the Missouri Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2005 and was named a Missouri Sports activities Legend, the very best honor bestowed by the Missouri Sports activities Corridor of Fame, in Jan. 2016.

Hughes additionally briefly served as the top coach for this system’s basketball crew, the place they sustained a document of 15-13.

UCM President Roger Finest launched a press release on Hughes’ demise Monday, mourning the demise of a longtime colleague.

“Jerry was a pal and mentor to numerous individuals, and his passing is a profound loss to the college and all of intercollegiate athletics,” Finest stated. “He devoted his life’s work to his alma mater, and the UCM athletics program is among the many high in Division II due to his management. We might be endlessly grateful for his contributions in making UCM a greater place for us all.”